A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb year for ethereum.org and its neighborhood — we already really feel a little bit nostalgic, but it surely’s vital to create space for celebrating the issues the ethereum.org neighborhood helped us construct in 2023 and proceed the momentum in 2024.
In that spirit, we ready a recap with our 2023 highlights of the ethereum.org neighborhood — benefit from the studying!
The highlights
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (nearly) all the things in one place
In Q1 2023, we launched the Ethereum roadmap web page — a complete hub detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Interested in upcoming modifications, technical upgrades and the way the roadmap is outlined? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to learn more.
💌 EF Weblog, straight to your inbox
Talking of the protocol 🤓 Ever wish to get first-hand Ethereum and protocol-related updates in your inbox? You may subscribe to receive new posts on this weblog on to your e mail inbox, courtesy of ethereum.org’s dev workforce.
🤔 Check your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying recreation? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you possibly can check your Ethereum information by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes out there on the Quiz Hub. The neighborhood are serving to to broaden our quiz library, so should you’ve obtained concepts or would like to contribute by creating questions check out our contributing guide!
📝 ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt something as soon as, twice should you prefer it — and that is why we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people in writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their alternative. With greater than 400 individuals and over 540 articles printed, we will doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood to study collectively, put their concepts on paper and help one another alongside the way in which was the most important spotlight of this initiative! You could find the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
📚 ethereum.org Translatathon
56 languages, 217 individuals, and 1.47 million phrases (🤯) translated in a one-week on-line competitors, the Translatathon set the tone for the significance of repeatedly fostering accessibility in Web3, one phrase at a time. It’s one among our proudest achievements, with an influence and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap put up!
🔡 Translated photos and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly consider the expertise of people that don’t converse English must be equal to those that do. So, we realized that having our pages translated into Spanish (for instance) however leaving all of the diagrams and pictures in English was lower than excellent. Our workforce developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our web site who does not converse English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to begin your web3 journey however a little bit involved about leaping straight and downloading a dapp? All of us have been there earlier than. With that in thoughts, the ethereum.org workforce have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Test it out and let us know what you think 😀.
🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new residence on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core workforce additionally assists with net improvement throughout different initiatives in the EF. Over the previous year, we have labored on designing and deploying new web sites for go-ethereum and Solidity and we could not be prouder of the consequence – and extra importantly, the influence this could convey to the Ethereum ecosystem.
🖼️ New year, new illustrations
We entered our glow-up period by commissioning eight new illustrations to ethereum.org, now featured on pages throughout the positioning (see some: Layer 2, Developers’ home, Community Hub). Higher than that, these artworks are open-source, and we encourage their use by the Ethereum neighborhood. Check out our assets page for extra assets (and inspiration)!
🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Spherical @ GG19
Helped by some nice folks at Gitcoin, we launched a help spherical to offer again and reward neighborhood members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In whole, 19 individuals were awarded, and this initiative validated our need to seek out extra methods to return worth to our neighborhood in 2024!
🧦 New merch, who dis?
A token of appreciation to our contributors: in November, we shipped over 100 swag containers to ethereum.org neighborhood members – socks pictures have taken over our Twitter feed… properly, not less than we will all agree they had been fairly trendy!
🎲 Hacking and enjoying in the infinite backyard
Midway via 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place of us may disconnect a little bit from the hecticness of web3 occasions’ and spend the time chilling and enjoying playing cards/board video games with the neighborhood? With that premise, we organized (in)finite video games at Devconnect IST and the suggestions from the Ethereum neighborhood was overwhelmingly optimistic. Sadly (or not), our workforce was too busy enjoying Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we must always manage a second version at Devcon SEA then?
🧭 Navigation redesign
ethereum.org is at all times a piece in progress. Earlier than we bid farewell to an eventful year, our workforce redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the data structure for higher consumer navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so preserve a watch out for this modification.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of tens of millions of views each year, we can’t overlook the engine that retains this ship working! After plenty of sweat, many tears, and numerous PRs, we efficiently migrated ethereum.org tech stack to NextJS, paving the way in which for improved web site efficiency, accessibility, and scalability. We’re excited to ship many new options in 2024 enabled by this modification!
So, what’s subsequent?
Our Q1 2024 roadmap is already out for suggestions, strategies, and contributions. Take a look on how one can begin contributing to ethereum.org (e.g. writing or reviewing content material, creating new designs, translating the web site, creating new options or fixing bugs, and lots of extra potentialities) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each individual concerned in making ethereum.org doable. Right here’s to an ideal 2024 🎉
